Champions from WNY schools to compete in News Spelling Bee

School champions from throughout Western New York will take a written test Wednesday in hopes of qualifying for the 86th annual Buffalo News Spelling Bee.

Twenty students with the highest scores will compete in the oral finals March 10 at the Buffalo History Museum. The winner of that competition will go on to the Scripps National Spelling Bee, courtesy of The Buffalo News, to be held the week of May 26 in Washington, D.C.